04.03.23 Greener Grass - Water Savings / INVESTING: Time IN The Market- Not Market Timing

For many sports events, fields are actually spray painted to make them look beautiful, which has led to lawn painting, especially where water is restricted and costly. How some homeowners, including Clark - are saving water by altering their lawns. Also, It’s not uncommon for people to pull their investments out of the market when it trends downward. Right now with economic uncertainty, people are rotating out of stocks in favor of savings, planning to return to the market when it’s “safe”. What are they missing? Plenty. How Clark handles investing. 

• Lawns & Water Savings: Segment 1
• Ask Clark: Segment 2
• Steady Investing: Segment 3
• Ask Clark: Segment 4

Mentioned on the show

• Do Your Neighbors Paint Their Lawns Green? Increasingly, Yes
• FuelEconomy.gov
• Welcome to Bluebird
• Individual Investors Pile Into Cash, Chasing Higher Returns - The Wall Street Journal.
• NYTimes.com: A Question About Your Money: Has Anything Truly Changed This Week?  [The Washington Post] Four money rules when financial news is making you nervous
• Should You Sell or Stay Put in the Stock Market?
• Dollar Cost Averaging Makes You a Fortune Over Time
• How To Save and Invest the Clark Howard Way
• How to Freeze Your Child's Credit
• A Simple Way To Help Your Kid Build Credit
• Should You Make Your Child an Authorized User on Your Credit Card?

Clark.com resources

• Episode transcripts
• Clark.com daily money newsletter
• Consumer Action Center Free Helpline: 636-492-5275

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